Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard